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Here are a few pictures of the living and dining room underway……Our home was built in the late 60’s and my wife and I bought it in 1989, we did the typical paint and minor fixes through out the years but now that were both entering our later years and really have no plans on moving plus the house has been paid off several years we decided to completely reno every room. The living and dining room had such a bad texture job originally that we decided to re-texture…….so far in the living room I have completed the skim coat, texture, paint, LED can lights, fan, crown molding and swithes & recptecles. I re-did the stone work around the fireplace about 15 years back but were kicking around in re-doing that before the wood floors go down. The dining room was skim coated, textured, painted, crown molding and wood floors I comleted today. This coming week I’ll get the base and casings completed and jump back to the living room. So far the dedicated listening room is complete, an area we call the pantry and laundry room……still have alot of work to do, were planning on re-doing three bathrooms, four bed rooms, hallways, kitchen, entery hall and family room. I hope I’m not in a wheel chair before I’m done LOL!!!
(Living room)
(Dining room)
(Listening room)
Looking great jbw!!
looks good
Looks like you’re gonna be busy for awhile, maybe just change the brick on the fireplace the rest looks nice
Justin Hernandez wrote:
Looks like you’re gonna be busy for awhile, maybe just change the brick on the fireplace the rest looks nice
Was thinking just the brick also but I think my wife is looking to do the rock too…..a happy wife is a happy life ;D
You got that right, what are you thinking for the fireplace??
Justin Hernandez wrote:
You got that right, what are you thinking for the fireplace??
The existing stone is four feet high so was kicking around doing black granite sub way tiles runing bond up about 3 feet give or take then a cane then some 2 x 2 then another cane then a chair rail of some sort and fianally cap with 2 inch thick black granite. The 2×2 would be of similar color as the sub way tile but have a bit of contrast. Also thinking 12 x 12 for the face but no runing bond…The black granite has just a smidge of spec through out.
Wow it sounds like you have spent some sleepless nights thinking about this you got all the details down packed! A lot of people like granite fireplaces if the wife likes go with it 🙂
Justin Hernandez wrote:
Wow it sounds like you have spent some sleepless nights thinking about this you got all the details down packed! A lot of people like granite fireplaces if the wife likes go with it 🙂
I could bank some points with the wife then I could buy some more tools I’ve been eying ha, ha……
Bigmikez wrote:
Looking great jbw!!
Most kind thanks…..
madman_us wrote:
looks good
Thank you…..
jbw55 wrote:
I could bank some points with the wife then I could buy some more tools I’ve been eying ha, ha……
Lol what have you been eyeing? Milwaukee?
awesome stuff in the remodel, I have to ask…. is one of your turntables a Kronos second from end on right?
Justin Hernandez wrote:
Lol what have you been eyeing? Milwaukee?
I could use a cordless 1/2″ impact and a palm router…..maybe Milwaulee, still looking.
comp56 wrote:
awesome stuff in the remodel, I have to ask…. is one of your turntables a Kronos second from end on right?
Its a Clearaudio Innovation
The listening room is awesome! I could see myself there listening to the pops and cracks of the vinyl. I’m adding listening room to my dream home, didn’t know of such a room. Best of luck with the remodel.
Poisonfangs85 wrote:
The listening room is awesome! I could see myself there listening to the pops and cracks of the vinyl. I’m adding listening room to my dream home, didn’t know of such a room. Best of luck with the remodel.
Appreciate the kind words……its my place to decompress from lifes twist and turns plus my wife has no say what I do to the room, LOL ::)
Wow. Well done.
That’s a monster fireplace.
Dining room: Hardwood or Laminate?
Awesome crown molding, BTW.
The crown molding….the corner overlays…aren’t just as the corners. Very cool. Covering breaks in trim or simply decorative?
That floor looks awesome! Great job .
n00b wrote:
Wow. Well done.
That’s a monster fireplace.
Dining room: Hardwood or Laminate?
Awesome crown molding, BTW.
Thank you…….hardwood, the livingroom will have the same.
n00b wrote:
The crown molding….the corner overlays…aren’t just as the corners. Very cool. Covering breaks in trim or simply decorative?
Its crown molding for dummies LOL!!……we wanted some type of corner decorative and ran across these kits, they have four corners and four straights and enough crown to do about 100 L.F. for just under a $100. Since I’m not a pro when it comes to crown I thought these kits would be ideal. I like where you can just make stadard cuts with out using a jig for the butts and corners……you can also buy outside corners, inside corners and straights seperatly for different room configurations. A crown pro would most likely dis the kits but it looks nice, easy to install if you haven’t done a whole lot of crown and the price is right ::)
Looks good great job man
bddhome wrote:
Looks good great job man
Appreciate it, thanks….
jbw55 wrote:
I could use a cordless 1/2″ impact and a palm router…..maybe Milwaulee, still looking.
How about DeWalts new 1/2 impact??
Justin Hernandez wrote:
How about DeWalts new 1/2 impact??
I’ve checked them out and there nice but all my cordless stuff is Milwaukee so not sure if I want to deal with another battery format…..I only have three Dewalt tools and there corded…..
There expensive even for the bare tool
Justin Hernandez wrote:
There expensive even for the bare tool
That’s for sure…..